Meet Isabel Getty!

If you are a double heiress, there's double
the reason to lounge around all day eating bonbons. But Isabel
Getty is not that kind of girl. She talks to Sophia Money-Coutts
about her musical ambitions and her Justin Bieber nightmare...

Isabel Getty is an insomniac. She stays up late into the night
writing music to help her sleep. But even then, when she nods off,
she has nightmares. 'I dreamt two days ago that Justin Bieber and I
were in a very committed relationship and it was really weird,' she
says over a cup of fresh mint tea in Mayfair. Isabel, 22, is the
only daughter of Christopher and Pia Getty, which makes her the
great-granddaughter of Jean Paul Getty, the American oil tycoon who
founded Getty Oil Company and was worth over $2bn when he died in
1976. But concentrate, because, via her madly beautiful mother,
Pia, Isabel is also the granddaughter of the Duty Free billionaire
Robert Miller. So she's a double heiress with glamorous genes all
round. That makes her sound horribly spoiled, but she's actually
completely charming. Chatty, unassuming and keen to swap Spotify
tips. 'Have you heard of Wild Belle?' she says, referring to an
American brother-and-sister team who make psychedelic pop. 'They're
very soulful.'

She grew up in New York in a six-storey townhouse on the Upper
East Side, moved to London when she was eight and went to the Harrodian. As a teen, she boarded at Le Rosey
in Switzerland, like her mother before her. There, Isabel rebelled
by dyeing her hair blue, then pink, and running away to Amsterdam
for a weekend after forging an email to her teacher. 'I told my mum
a couple of months later and she was, like, "OK." She is not strict
at all.'

Pia, her mother, makes up one third of the Miller sisters - the
ravishing blonde trio who ruled the Manhattan social scene in the
Nineties as the ultimate Park Avenue Princesses, sometimes taking a
private jet from Georgetown University to New York just for dinner.
Pia married Christopher Getty in 1993 in a ceremony in Bali; three
years later, her sister Marie-Chantal married Prince Pavlos of Greece; three months after
that, Alexandra, the third sister, married Prince Alexander von
Furstenburg, son of the designer Diana and great-great-grandson of
the Fiat founder Giovanni Agnelli. Isabel is Pia and Christopher's
oldest child, and she has three younger brothers - Robert, 20,
Conrad, 18, and Maximus, 15. She's just landed in London from New
York, having finished a degree in music and business at NYU. To
celebrate her graduation, she threw a huge Midsummer Night's
Dream-themed party for 300 friends and family at One
Marylebone in June. She went as a fairy in a gold Oscar de la Renta
dress.

Now she's concentrating on music - writing it, singing it and
playing the guitar under her stage name, Izzy Getty. Her voice is
soft and raspy, her melodies catchy - think Ellie Goulding with an
American twang. She's living at her mother's house in Knightsbridge
while she figures out where to base herself in London. Meanwhile,
she'll be able to hang out with her cousins, the Greeces (the
offspring of Prince Pavlos and Marie-Chantal, who live in Chelsea),
as well as spending the weekends at their house in the Cotswolds - the scene of the best party she
has ever attended. It was her grandfather Robert's 80th: 'Diana
Ross was there and she sang all the classics, and at one point she
gave me the mic and I was, like, wow. So I just sang along.'